Lester Horton famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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I am sincerely trying now to create a dance technique based entirely upon corrective exercises, created with a knowledge of human anatomy; a technique which will correct physical faults and prepare a dancer for any type of dancing he may wish to follow; a technique having all the basic movements which govern the actions of the body; combined with a knowledge of the origin of movement and a sense of artistic design.
-- Lester Horton
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A bear, however hard he tries, grows tubby without exercise.
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You can live with victory over the desires of your flesh. Habits, attitudes, desires, worries, and dissipation must yield as you exercise authority over your mind, emotions, and will.
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I say that a Christian congregation can survive and often appear to prosper in the community by the exercise of human talent and without any touch from the Holy Spirit! All that religious activity and the dear people will not know anything better until the great and terrible day when our self-employed talents are burned with fire and only that which was wrought by the Holy Ghost will stand forever!
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To exercise at or near capacity is the best way I know of reaching a true introspective state. If you do it right, it can open all kinds of inner doors.
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Prom has all the elements of a popular story. It reeks of all-Americanness, tension, drama. It has romance. Pretty dresses. Dancing. Limos. High school. Coming of age.
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Toe dancing is a dandy attention getter, second only to screaming.
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A man screaming is not a dancing bear. Life is not a spectacle.
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I knew I was happy when I was dancing.
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I am taking belly dancing now. My hips are double-jointed, so I can do it really easily.
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By the way, dancers are not human beings. How can you be human and do what they do?
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